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RFC 1657 - Received Path Attribute Table

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### Received Path Attribute Table

                    bgpPathAttrEntry OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     BgpPathAttrEntry
                        MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "Information about a path to a network."
                        INDEX { bgpPathAttrDestNetwork,
                                bgpPathAttrPeer        }
                        ::= { bgpRcvdPathAttrTable 1 }

                    BgpPathAttrEntry ::= SEQUENCE {
                        bgpPathAttrPeer
                             IpAddress,
                        bgpPathAttrDestNetwork
                             IpAddress,
                        bgpPathAttrOrigin
                             INTEGER,
                        bgpPathAttrASPath
                             OCTET STRING,
                        bgpPathAttrNextHop
                             IpAddress,
                        bgpPathAttrInterASMetric
                             Integer32
                    }

                    bgpPathAttrPeer OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     IpAddress
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "The IP address of the peer where the path
                                information was learned."
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 1 }

                    bgpPathAttrDestNetwork OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     IpAddress
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "The address of the destination network."
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 2 }

                    bgpPathAttrOrigin OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     INTEGER {
                                       igp(1),-- networks are interior
                                       egp(2),-- networks learned via EGP
                                       incomplete(3) -- undetermined
                                   }
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                             "The ultimate origin of the path information."
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 3 }

                    bgpPathAttrASPath OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     OCTET STRING (SIZE (2..255))
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "The set of ASs that must be traversed to
                                reach the network.  This object is
                                probably best represented as SEQUENCE OF
                                INTEGER.  For SMI compatibility, though,
                                it is represented as OCTET STRING.  Each
                                AS is represented as a pair of octets
                                according to the following algorithm:

                                    first-byte-of-pair = ASNumber / 256;
                                    second-byte-of-pair = ASNumber & 255;"
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 4 }

                    bgpPathAttrNextHop OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     IpAddress
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "The address of the border router that
                                should be used for the destination
                                network."
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 5 }
                    bgpPathAttrInterASMetric OBJECT-TYPE
                        SYNTAX     Integer32
                        MAX-ACCESS read-only
                        STATUS     obsolete
                        DESCRIPTION
                                "The optional inter-AS metric.  If this
                                attribute has not been provided for this
                                route, the value for this object is 0."
                        ::= { bgpPathAttrEntry 6 }

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